From the back cover:
Are you worried that someone from the secular world will ask you a question about Judaism that you don’t have an answer for?
Are you heading out to a campus to inspire others about Judaism...
“I’m poly,” I wrote her. “So it’s complicated.”
“How come I’m only finding out now?” She wanted to know. “Most poly people put it in their profile. I am not poly.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I forgot to add it.”
“No other religion claims to have experienced public revelation. Therefore, it’s a claim that is so outlandish, that it must have actually occurred because otherwise no one else would have been stupid enough to believe in it, or brazen enough to ‘introduce’ it into the cultural narrative.”
Some questions I had about Judaism, I got answers that worked, to a point.
There were explanations that fit within a larger framework. And as long as that framework was intact, the answers worked.
"Why does the Torah tell us to...
I was recently called arrogant by a Shabbos guest.
I didn’t object, because maybe I’m arrogant, but I have the humility to admit it.
But here’s what else is arrogant: assuming you’re smart enough to not fall for a kiruv-style proof...
If you believe in God from a philosophical point of view, you shouldn’t need any emotional scaffolding to keep things up.
The absurdity of one-off inspirational stories of any kind should be obvious to even the most casual of contemplators, and yet it forms...
One of my biggest struggles, even when I was still religious, was with the realization that as a person I had grown way more from therapy and self-help books than from any amount of “Torah wisdom”.
This was unacceptable to me. I didn’t want...
“Judaism is about relationships,” sayeth the narrative. “It’s about aligning yourself with truth. It’s about becoming more like God, so that you can connect with God (how that doesn’t work is the subject of a separate article).”
Furthermore, “Only dim witted people, like women...
In Judaism, we're taught, everything has the right context.
Some days, you shouldn't eat anything.Other days, you should stuff yourself like a pig.
Some days you shouldn't have sex at all.Other days, sex is a big mitzvah.
Some...
Even More Freidom
Genesis and The Big Bang – Extra NSFW
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And water. And light. And...
It’s Time to Pray
There’s a little booklet you can get, and it tells you when you can worship...
Anecdotal Evidence
See also, Hashgacha Pratis.
How Fucking Convenient
It's a holocaust out there. Thus was the Aish narrative.
A...
